Baker gets a brief workout before weather ends game

Ida Baker only got six minutes out of its preseason game against Oxbridge on Friday night before lightning canceled it.

The six offensive plays and single defensive series did not give the coaching staff much film to look at this week, and what little they got was not positive. The offense went three-and-out twice, not getting further than its own 29-yard line. With only one returning starter on the offensive line, quarterback Sage Attwood was sacked on the first play.

"We were off a little bit," Baker coach Brian Conn said. "We had a couple receivers open and a couple that were broken up."

Meanwhile, Oxbridge, a private school in West Palm Beach, used its only offensive drive to find seams in Baker's defense. ThunderWolves quarterback Angelo Navaroli whipped a short pass

to Tre Gabriel up the middle in an open gap between linebackers. Gabriel took the ball to the left side and after dodging a couple of tackles, was in the end zone.

"It's hard to tell," Conn said. "It wasn't a good six minutes on either side of the ball, but that's a good team. We would have liked to have gotten at least a couple of quarters in for film to evaluate, but we'll go into Week One and that will be our first game."

The lightning alarm sounded with 6:26 left in the first quarter. After a two-hour delay, the coaches agreed to cancel the game because of Oxbridge's three-hour drive home.

"We were checking the radar," Conn said. "It didn't look good. (Lightning) was still within five miles."

The Bulldogs open the season next Friday, hosting Island Coast at 7:30 p.m.